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The buildings, their windows dark, barely showed against the dark sky. Gunfire
flashed without a break and bullets sang in various keys, screeching, whistling, or
oddly clacking, as though turning somersaults in the air. I tried to make out ...
The buildings, their windows dark, barely showed against the dark sky. Gunfire
flashed without a break and bullets sang in various keys, screeching, whistling, or
oddly clacking, as though turning somersaults in the air. I tried to make out ...
Page 176
I spoke into the darkness. 'It's a pogrom,' Amalia answered unexpectedly from
behind ... Then, from the dead stillness of the dark house, came a woman's
terrifying, despairing shriek. She had no other weapon with which to protect her
children ...
I spoke into the darkness. 'It's a pogrom,' Amalia answered unexpectedly from
behind ... Then, from the dead stillness of the dark house, came a woman's
terrifying, despairing shriek. She had no other weapon with which to protect her
children ...
Page 212
I couldn't see it in the dark, but I knew the rough stone surface must offer
footholds. 'Over the wall, quick,' I whispered to Yasha. 'In one go. It's our last
chance. We've nothing to lose.' I was thin and slight — it was easy for me to climb
over.
I couldn't see it in the dark, but I knew the rough stone surface must offer
footholds. 'Over the wall, quick,' I whispered to Yasha. 'In one go. It's our last
chance. We've nothing to lose.' I was thin and slight — it was easy for me to climb
over.
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
Copyright | |
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Amalia Anarchists Antoshchenko arms army asked Atamans Bolsheviks Boulevard broken bullet burst cigarette Commander Commissar Cossack crowd dark Denikin Dnieper Dodya door driver empty everything eyes face fire flowers front Gaidamaks Galya garden gate gave German girl greatcoat grey hall hand head heard hell Hetman hung journalists Junkers Khvat Kiev knew Left SRs listen lived looked Lucienna machine-gun Makhno Mama Martov Maximilian Voloshin morning Moscow Nazarov never night Odessa once Pan Kturenda Pavlo Skoropadski Petlyura Petrograd platform priests pulled quiet realised Red Army Red Guards regiment revolution rifle round Russia seemed Shchelkunov shot shouted silence Simbirsk sitting smell smiled smoke soldiers sound Soviet station stood stopped street suddenly talk thought took town train Treaty of Brest-Litovsk turned Tverskoy Boulevard Ukraine Ukrainian voice wagon waiting walked wall whistle wind window woman yard Yasha young
Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Harvill P., 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2007 |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union |
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